Performance
Avgang 2025: Anna Einemo Frøysland / Tending to wilde
The performance Tending to wilde is Anna Einemo Frøysland’s graduation project in master choreography at KHiO.
Plants and nature are sometimes seen as either a true promise of innocence or as something mysterious and dangerous that is impossible to control. Mothers often receive a similar stereotypical framing. If we go beyond this simplification, what can we find? Perhaps a myriad of things, surely composite and rich.
Eight dancers and three string instruments grow and expand, decay and diminish. The boundaries of the self are constantly negotiated. The performers make order out of disarray, fall into confusion again, and find themselves in what is perhaps a continuous practice of freedom.
In this project, the ambivalences within parenthood and upbringing are juxtaposed with the plant as a figure of thought. Plants extend beyond being simply a metaphor, to an embedded knowledge to interact and think along with – letting us follow the path of patient wilderness.
Credits
Choreographer: Anna Einemo Frøysland
Composer: Åsmund Erichsen
Dancers: Anna Katrine Langer Schou, Frida Elida Høvik, Julie Louise Berg Bjelke, Elias Elvegaard, Ellie Vermunt, Ine Halvorsen, Beau De Lathouwer, Thomas Myklebust
Musicians: Stan Callewaert (double bass), Karl Jõgi (violin), Kristin Joten (viola)
Costume design: Signe Vasshus
Light design: Eirik Lie Hegre
Internal supervisors: Janne-Camilla Lyster and Anne Grete Eriksen
External supervisor: Dragana Bulut
Supervisor for BA dancers: Therese Skauge
Photos:
Ida Florin Voldsgaard (costume design)
Sela Valentina (photographer)
Sanne larsen (project leader)
Kari Åtland Ellefsen (hair)
Special thanks to:
Charlotte Sletten Bjorå/Naturhistorisk museum, Johanna Øyno, Berit Einemo Frøysland, Roza Moshtagi, Aslak Aune Nygård, Trine Lise Moe, Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen, Elisabeth C. Gmeiner, Zsuzsanna Rózsavölgyi
Accessibility and trigger warnings: There will be use of stage smoke
